Headlines for 01-18-08

01-18-08 - Woman killed, dozens wounded in new Israeli strikes on Gaza A 47-year-old woman died when an Israeli warplane fired into a building that used to house a Hamas "interior ministry" in Gaza City, destroying the structure, they said.


01-18-08 - Militant killed in latest Israeli strike on Gaza


01-18-08 - U.N. agency says Israel blocks aid shipments to Gaza


01-18-08 - Aid Blocked As Gaza Crossings Closed


01-18-08 - UN wants Gaza crossings reopened


01-18-08 - Israel orders closure of Gaza crossings as Palestinian anger and casualties increase Last night the Gaza death toll over the past four days stood at 34, among them at least 10 civilians.


01-18-08 - Israeli air strike 'destroys Gaza ministry'


01-18-08 - UN chief warns on Gaza violence "We all understand the security problems and the need to respond... but collective punishment of the people of Gaza is not, we believe, the appropriate way to do that," said John Holmes, undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs.


01-18-08 - Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories: Civilians on both sides pay price of escalation The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today expressed its concern about the suffering of men, women and children taking no direct part in the ongoing conflict between Palestinian militants and the Israeli armed forces.


01-18-08 - Gaza child killing 'ends soldier release talks'


01-18-08 - Israeli PM makes quiet visit to Gaza periphery towns


01-18-08 - Israeli security Wall and settlements will create more grievances: India India Friday said that the ongoing construction of the security wall and the expansion of Israeli settlements will lead to creation of more grievances in the Middle East.


01-18-08 - EU urges Israelis to ease Palestinian movement


01-18-08 - More than 30 rockets hit western Negev since Friday morning


01-18-08 - Israel - OPT: Gaza power cuts leave people cold physically, metaphorically


01-18-08 - U.N. rights forum to hold special session on Gaza


01-18-08 - Palestinian president denounces Israel's Gaza strikes as 'brutal'


01-18-08 - Israeli army kidnaps 8 Palestinians from the West Bank


01-18-08 - Three injured in the weekly Bil'in Nonviolent action


01-18-08 - Scores protest the illegal Israeli Wall near Bethlehem


01-18-08 - UN special religion rapporteur to visit Israel, Palestinian territory The special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Asma Jahangir, it to visit Israel and the Palestinian territory it occupies from 20 to 27 January 2008, says the UN Organization in Geneva.


01-18-08 - Livni fails to change Lavrov's stance on Iran Differences of opinion between Israel and Russia over how to deal with Iran surfaced Thursday when Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called on Russia to support stronger sanctions against Iran, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that Russia's current actions were sufficient


01-18-08 - Palestinian Prime Minister thanks UAE President Sheikh Khalifa for $9 million donation


01-18-08 - Hamas Police Force Recruits Women in Gaza


01-18-08 - Local pastor to help with peace in Palestine


01-18-08 - Art attack: international political artists in Palestine


01-18-08 - Reality in Mideast bears no relation to Bush's vision Twixt silken sheets in the very palace of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President Bush awakes to confront a Middle East that bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning that he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.


01-18-08 - 5 Questions On Israel For The Next Debate


01-18-08 - Pregnant Detainee delivers her baby under harsh conditions


01-18-08 - German coalition split over foreign minister's contact with Syria Steinmeier met Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in Berlin Thursday to demand that Syria play a "constructive role" in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and in the political crisis in Lebanon.


01-18-08 - Bush's Influence in Middle East Fades Bush rang the alarm bell about Iran's clear and present nuclear danger, but his diplomatic message had already been overshadowed by last month's National Intelligence Estimate. While his Israeli interlocutors echoed the president's Iranian concerns, Arab heads of state took comfort in the assessment of Washington's intelligence community that said Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program when the United States invaded Iraq.


01-18-08 - Livni continues Bush's course in Moscow This is no surprise since positions of Israel and the United States (that is, Bush personally) coincide on many issues, in particular on the prospects of Arab-Israeli settlement and Iran's nuclear ambitions.




01-18-08 - Palestinian protesters in Syria slam Israeli ?massacres?


01-18-08 - Dream begins to fade under state of siege Bush may have spoken forcefully of the need for a contiguous Palestinian territory - "Swiss cheese isn't going to work when it comes to the territory of a state" - but with at least half of the West Bank land already allocated to settler or Israeli military use, according to the Israeli rights group B'tselem, there seems to be little room left for a Palestinian state......A self-avowed racist, King is a leading light in a movement, financed as far as is known mainly by wealthy foreign Jews and - critics say - with quiet backing from the state, to secretly acquire Arab property in East Jerusalem to build Jewish settlements.


01-18-08 - State Department's Burns to resign